Please join us in welcoming our latest guest blogger, Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, PhD student doing some fascinating research who blogs at Scholaristas. Here’s a short biographical intro:

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto is a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan, where she studies the American West, Comparative Colonialism, and British History.  She is also a graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she earned a Masters degree in education while teaching elementary school, and the College of Idaho.  Her current project juxtaposes Mormon missionary work in Britain with that in the Pacific to understand the dynamics of race, gender, and class in these two respective fields of labor.  She is also interested in the development of Mormon feminism in the nineteenth century and its connections to the Mormon missionary project.  Finally, Amanda is a connoisseur of Mormon kitsch and collects Mormon missionary action figures, Book of Mormon board games, and Mormon children?s books.

Welcome, Amanda! We look forward to your contributions!